Word: courting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Penal Code of the State of New York a section (No. 1530) providing for the closure of a public nuisance. There is a recent decision by the State Court of Appeals that a speakeasy is a public nuisance. Also in New York are Grover Aloysius Whalen, the Police Commissioner; Maurice Campbell, the local U. S. Prohibition Administrator; and a tidal sentiment against Prohibition.* Tall, blue-eyed, cinematically handsome, fastidiously dressed. Administrator Campbell rose to Major in the Army Ordnance Corps during the War. For three years (1919-22) he was a cinema director for Famous Players-Lasky (Oh, Lady, Lady...
...ready to admit that legally it would be very difficult to stop. Politically it is a touchy problem, too. If the wet-voting city winemaker is prosecuted, for consistency's sake so must the Dry-voting country cider & wine men be prosecuted. The hair-splitting decision of the Court of Appeals last week, distinguishing between home-grown and market-bought beverage materials, may contain the basis of a solution...
Pavlov. Leningrad's Ivan Petrovich Pavlov was the most revered man at the Congress. Limping on his right foot he tried to avoid a crowd of learned admirers. They crowded about him and forced him to hold a sort of court. He liked the adoration. His early big work was on the salivary glands and on the nerves of the heart. His current work is on the functioning of the brain. Behaviorists have taken up his theories and made them fairly common knowledge. His picture of mental activity is mechanistic. The brain acts according to habits. Certain repeated stimuli condition...
Died. Serge Diaghilev, onetime ballet master of the Russian Imperial Court, introducer of Russian ballet to the U. S.. developer of famed Dancers Nijinsky. Lydia Lopokova, Anna Pavlova; in Venice...
Meantime, in the other bracket, came an upsetter in the person of brown, brawny Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory, eight times National Champion. Seeming to forget her years, but not her craft, Mrs. Mallory stepped briskly to the court, flashed her teeth, stamped her feet, theatrically eliminated England's No. 1 player, bouncing Betty Nuthall, 6-3, 6-3. Thus she flouted a Wills-Nuthall semifinal, long anticipated. Thus she herself gained the privilege of playing Champion Wills. That privilege, however, lasted only 20 minutes, with the grim Californian giving her not a game...